Calls for Community Review
Community review process archived
The Health-RI Semantic Interoperability Initiative has been discontinued. There are no active Calls for Community Review, and no new review windows are planned under this initiative.
This page is retained as historical documentation of the external-review process used during active development. See Initiative Status.
Semantic interoperability in healthcare and the life sciences is not just a technical challenge. It affects how data about patients and studies is interpreted when it moves between hospitals, registries, and research infrastructures, with direct consequences for people's lives. If different parties are to share and reuse data, they need to be able to adopt and trust a common semantic solution.
During the initiative, that trust was supported through openness and community participation. A common semantic reference model was treated as something that should be visible and reviewable by people who work with the modeled concepts in practice.
When modeling of a domain or subdomain reached the external-review stage, the corresponding part of the Health-RI Ontology (HRIO) could be placed in a time-bound Call for Community Review. Domain and modeling experts were invited to assess correctness and completeness with respect to both modeling quality and domain content.
These Calls for Community Review corresponded to the external community review phase in the ontology validation lifecycle described in the Ontology validation and lifecycle page.
What did the external review involve?
Contributors could review a model and its documentation and report what seemed unclear, incorrect, missing, ambiguous, or misleading, especially regarding:
- domain correctness and coverage; and
- conceptual rigor and consistent use of modeling constructs.
Contributors could choose whether they were acknowledged. By default, reviewer names could be included in ontology metadata collaborators; contributors could request anonymity instead.
Instructions for each review were provided in the corresponding call.
Community Review
Calls overview
| Status | Domain under review | Review opens | Review closes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Closed | Sex and Gender | 17-02-2026 | 13-03-2026 |
| Not completed | Person Birth | 30-03-2026 | 17-04-2026 |
Open calls
There are no active Calls for Community Review. The initiative has been discontinued.
Closed calls
The Sex and Gender review materials and any recorded feedback remain available as part of the initiative's historical documentation.